Michael Muramoto Photography

A couple posts ago I mentioned why I like to use speedlights to enhance or overpower the ambient light to get a certain mood or create specific light for my subjects. I personally like to use Nikon’s Creative Lighting System, or CLS, since it gives me some advantages over using a manual flash. CLS works...

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Regina and Brent made their way out to California from Missouri for our shoot and they were a joy to work with. This is their first trip to California, and I wish they had a few more days to enjoy all that is here in the Bay Area. I didn’t want them to think that...

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Although my career is about photographing people on one of their biggest days of their lives, I also enjoy capturing travel images and interesting architectural designs. I try to use these same compositional skills when photographing people as I want to ensure that my backgrounds and foregrounds are also interesting, as they are essentially the...

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As I mentioned in a previous post, I want to talk a little about Nikon’s proprietary Creative Lighting System or “CLS” as it is known amongst us Nikonians (view Nikon’s tutorial here: Nikon’s Wireless CLS Tutorial.) I sometimes use this flash system to enhance my subjects who may already be in good ambient light. What...

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